Lectures on the Four Last Books of the Pentateuch (Volume 2); Designed to Shew the Divine Origin of the Jewish Religion, Chiefly From Internal Evidence - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1154240975 ISBN 13: 9781154240979

Riassunto

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1807. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... PART III. LECT. IV. SECT. II. DANIEL, lii. 2. " Many of them that sleep in the du9t of the earth shall " awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and " everlasting contempt." THE passages we have hitherta adduced, from the history recorded by the Jewish Lawgiver, and which shew that he himself believed a future state of retribution, and contain such proofs of it as would naturally impress that belief on every pious and reflecting mind; have been chiefly taken from the Book of Genesis. In the remaining part of the Pentateuch we are not to wonder, that the rewards and punishments of a future life are not expressly introduced. It has been shewn that God exercised over the Jews an extraordinary providence, ,rewarding two hundred and fifty years. A great part of this time the Jews were powerful and wealthy; their minds were gradually enlightened by commerce and softened by peace, and the conviction of Jehovah's over-ruling providence gradually established by a still increasing length Of experience; and thus a foundation laid for a more firm reliance on the divine promises respecting a future life. And while the temporal discipline and fortune of the Jews thus prepared the way for the reception of religious instructions; we observe that Samuel founded the schools of the Prophets, Avhere numbers of the Levites, and probably other pious Jews, were trained from their youth to study and expound the Word and the will of God, to warn the people against idolatry impiety and vice, and become instruments of extending the knowledge of the Jewish religion, and the worship of the great Jehovah; we now percdve Providence raising up for them instructors, first in the persons of their two most distinguished kings, David and Solomon, the" "former as a prophet, the' latter c...

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• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1154240975
• ISBN 13: 9781154240979
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